Prof Binegar
English 111-05
09/18/12
Communication Technologies Communication technologies are being used worldwide than ever before. It is a new and improved way of communicating with your friends. I use communication technologies in my everyday life as well. Examples that assist me on a daily basis are facebook, text, and e-mail. It is a lot quicker and more convenient to do these communication technologies than trying to communicate with my friends in person. People today live such busy lifestyles that they depend on this type of technology. There are four types of communication technology. First, the most common type of communication technology is face book. Just about everyone has a face book account. Face book is a social networking website where you can find friends and request to be friends and request to be friends with people you have met throughout your life. By having a face book account, you can keep in touch with your friends by chatting back and forth, sending private messages, playing games, and looking at their pictures on their wall. For example, I have a friend that I do not get to see often, and I communicate with her on face book. We always get to chat at least every other day because face book is so convenient. I can just turn on my computer and type in face book, my password, and I am on the social networking site. It is as simple as a touch of a button. Texting is another type of communication technology. Sometimes called , “text messaging” is when you can use cell phones, pagers, or other handheld devices to send short messages to your contacts without having to speak to them. I use text messaging on my cell phone quite frequently throughout the day. For instance, I can text my friends throughout the day. I can text them rather than speaking to them. Also, my friends and I text to tell each other how our day is going, so we can stay close in touch with what is going on around us. Therefore, we